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Re: System Provided Font Menu?
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Re: System Provided Font Menu?


  • Subject: Re: System Provided Font Menu?
  • From: Scott Ahten <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:51:41 -0500


On Feb 18, 2005, at 7:03 AM, Andreas Mayer wrote:

Am 17. Feb 2005 um 22:21 Uhr schrieb Scott Ahten:
but a font menu would be useful in a grouped, multi-property inspector panel or an application menu

No.

I could see the three primary panes of the Font Panel being quite useful as pop-up menus in a inspector panel along with other document formating controls.


[Family     | v ]  -  [Typeface    | v ]  -  [Size    | v ]

But it would probably be to difficult to coordinate three individual, system defined menus or combine them into a single view that fits everyone's needs. Probably better to roll your own pop-ups in this case.


Font menus were useful when people had about a dozen fonts installed. Today we have hundreds of fonts on our machines and displaying all of them in a single popup menu is just insane.

Personally, I like the Font Panel, but not everyone wants or needs all of the functionality it provides. Unlike design applications, most people using word processing, email, etc., only need a simple font selection menu that displays a subset of all the fonts installed on their system. Having a standard application menu that allows users to group / hide / show fonts by collection or show WYSIWYG previews would help resolve some of these issues in a uniform way.


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